EXHIBITION: Digital Transitions

Featuring work from the Light Work Collection

January 23-April 1, 2006
Gallery Talk/Reception: January 30, 2006 in the Schine Student Center

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery, Schine Student Center, Syracuse 13244

Light Work's upcoming exhibition, Digital Transitions , encourages a dialogue within the community about the influence of digital technology and changing processes on contemporary artists and image-making. The work, all created over the past fifteen years, explores the direction some artists are taking in incorporating digital technology in their photographic process. In each piece, digital technology was used somewhere in creating the images.

Primarily, the artists featured in this exhibition have participated in the Artist-in-Residence program, or are past Light Work Grant recipients. Because Light Work encourages participation by a variety of emerging and under-represented artists, the Light Work Permanent Collection is an extensive and diverse archive for the mapping of trends and developments in photography. It includes all genres of expression in contemporary photography including documentary, abstract, experimental, and conceptual work.

John Mannion, Community Darkrooms' digital lab manager, will give a gallery talk regarding this exhibition on Monday, January 30. Using the images featured in the exhibition as examples, he will discuss the digital process, what decisions need to be made when working digitally, and what has helped influence the work of the artists.  He has worked hand-in-hand with many of Light Work's Artists-in-Residence to produce high quality digital prints, including some in this show.  

This exhibition was curated by Christopher Secor, a history of art major from Syracuse University's School of Visual and Performing Arts.  He received a 2005 Robert B. Menschel Internship Award, created to provide support for undergraduate students who are working in the not-for-profit world, supplement student income, and make internships competitive with work in the for-profit sector.

This exhibition was funded in part by Syracuse University's U Encounter Grant program. The gallery hours for this exhibition are Sunday-Saturday, 10am-10pm, and by appointment. To schedule an appointment, please call 315-443-1300. The exhibition, lecture, and reception are free and open to the public. Light Work is a non-profit, artist-run organization dedicated to the support of artists working in photography and electronic media. For more information contact Light Work at 443-1300.

Press photo:
View of the Heart 1, 1995
Martina Lopez
Cibachrome print